assert( iCur>=0 && iCur<p->nCursor );
  if( p->apCsr[iCur] ){ /*OPTIMIZATION-IF-FALSE*/
    sqlite3VdbeFreeCursor(p, p->apCsr[iCur]);
    p->apCsr[iCur] = 0;
  }
  if( SQLITE_OK==sqlite3VdbeMemClearAndResize(pMem, nByte) ){
    p->apCsr[iCur] = pCx = (VdbeCursor*)pMem->z;
    memset(pCx, 0, sizeof(VdbeCursor));
    pCx->eCurType = eCurType;
    pCx->iDb = iDb;
    pCx->nField = nField;
    pCx->aOffset = &pCx->aType[nField];
    if( eCurType==CURTYPE_BTREE ){
      pCx->uc.pCursor = (BtCursor*)
          &pMem->z[ROUND8(sizeof(VdbeCursor))+2*sizeof(u32)*nField];
................................................................................
      SQLITE_OPEN_TRANSIENT_DB;
  assert( pOp->p1>=0 );
  assert( pOp->p2>=0 );
  pCx = allocateCursor(p, pOp->p1, pOp->p2, -1, CURTYPE_BTREE);
  if( pCx==0 ) goto no_mem;
  pCx->nullRow = 1;
  pCx->isEphemeral = 1;
  rc = sqlite3BtreeOpen(db->pVfs, 0, db, &pCx->pBt, 
                        BTREE_OMIT_JOURNAL | BTREE_SINGLE | pOp->p5, vfsFlags);
  if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
    rc = sqlite3BtreeBeginTrans(pCx->pBt, 1);
  }
  if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
    /* If a transient index is required, create it by calling
    ** sqlite3BtreeCreateTable() with the BTREE_BLOBKEY flag before
    ** opening it. If a transient table is required, just use the
    ** automatically created table with root-page 1 (an BLOB_INTKEY table).
    */
    if( (pKeyInfo = pOp->p4.pKeyInfo)!=0 ){
      int pgno;
      assert( pOp->p4type==P4_KEYINFO );
      rc = sqlite3BtreeCreateTable(pCx->pBt, &pgno, BTREE_BLOBKEY | pOp->p5); 
      if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
        assert( pgno==MASTER_ROOT+1 );
        assert( pKeyInfo->db==db );
        assert( pKeyInfo->enc==ENC(db) );
        pCx->pKeyInfo = pKeyInfo;
        rc = sqlite3BtreeCursor(pCx->pBt, pgno, BTREE_WRCSR,
                                pKeyInfo, pCx->uc.pCursor);
      }
      pCx->isTable = 0;
    }else{
      rc = sqlite3BtreeCursor(pCx->pBt, MASTER_ROOT, BTREE_WRCSR,
                              0, pCx->uc.pCursor);
      pCx->isTable = 1;
    }
  }
  if( rc ) goto abort_due_to_error;
  pCx->isOrdered = (pOp->p5!=BTREE_UNORDERED);
  break;

  assert( iCur>=0 && iCur<p->nCursor );
  if( p->apCsr[iCur] ){ /*OPTIMIZATION-IF-FALSE*/
    sqlite3VdbeFreeCursor(p, p->apCsr[iCur]);
    p->apCsr[iCur] = 0;
  }
  if( SQLITE_OK==sqlite3VdbeMemClearAndResize(pMem, nByte) ){
    p->apCsr[iCur] = pCx = (VdbeCursor*)pMem->z;
    memset(pCx, 0, offsetof(VdbeCursor,pAltCursor));
    pCx->eCurType = eCurType;
    pCx->iDb = iDb;
    pCx->nField = nField;
    pCx->aOffset = &pCx->aType[nField];
    if( eCurType==CURTYPE_BTREE ){
      pCx->uc.pCursor = (BtCursor*)
          &pMem->z[ROUND8(sizeof(VdbeCursor))+2*sizeof(u32)*nField];
................................................................................
      SQLITE_OPEN_TRANSIENT_DB;
  assert( pOp->p1>=0 );
  assert( pOp->p2>=0 );
  pCx = allocateCursor(p, pOp->p1, pOp->p2, -1, CURTYPE_BTREE);
  if( pCx==0 ) goto no_mem;
  pCx->nullRow = 1;
  pCx->isEphemeral = 1;
  rc = sqlite3BtreeOpen(db->pVfs, 0, db, &pCx->pBtx, 
                        BTREE_OMIT_JOURNAL | BTREE_SINGLE | pOp->p5, vfsFlags);
  if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
    rc = sqlite3BtreeBeginTrans(pCx->pBtx, 1);
  }
  if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
    /* If a transient index is required, create it by calling
    ** sqlite3BtreeCreateTable() with the BTREE_BLOBKEY flag before
    ** opening it. If a transient table is required, just use the
    ** automatically created table with root-page 1 (an BLOB_INTKEY table).
    */
    if( (pCx->pKeyInfo = pKeyInfo = pOp->p4.pKeyInfo)!=0 ){
      int pgno;
      assert( pOp->p4type==P4_KEYINFO );
      rc = sqlite3BtreeCreateTable(pCx->pBtx, &pgno, BTREE_BLOBKEY | pOp->p5); 
      if( rc==SQLITE_OK ){
        assert( pgno==MASTER_ROOT+1 );
        assert( pKeyInfo->db==db );
        assert( pKeyInfo->enc==ENC(db) );

        rc = sqlite3BtreeCursor(pCx->pBtx, pgno, BTREE_WRCSR,
                                pKeyInfo, pCx->uc.pCursor);
      }
      pCx->isTable = 0;
    }else{
      rc = sqlite3BtreeCursor(pCx->pBtx, MASTER_ROOT, BTREE_WRCSR,
                              0, pCx->uc.pCursor);
      pCx->isTable = 1;
    }
  }
  if( rc ) goto abort_due_to_error;
  pCx->isOrdered = (pOp->p5!=BTREE_UNORDERED);
  break;

**          -  On either an index or a table
**      * A sorter
**      * A virtual table
**      * A one-row "pseudotable" stored in a single register
*/
typedef struct VdbeCursor VdbeCursor;
struct VdbeCursor {
  u8 eCurType;          /* One of the CURTYPE_* values above */
  i8 iDb;               /* Index of cursor database in db->aDb[] (or -1) */
  u8 nullRow;           /* True if pointing to a row with no data */
  u8 deferredMoveto;    /* A call to sqlite3BtreeMoveto() is needed */
  u8 isTable;           /* True for rowid tables.  False for indexes */
#ifdef SQLITE_DEBUG
  u8 seekOp;            /* Most recent seek operation on this cursor */
  u8 wrFlag;            /* The wrFlag argument to sqlite3BtreeCursor() */
#endif
  Bool isEphemeral:1;   /* True for an ephemeral table */
  Bool useRandomRowid:1;/* Generate new record numbers semi-randomly */
  Bool isOrdered:1;     /* True if the table is not BTREE_UNORDERED */
  Pgno pgnoRoot;        /* Root page of the open btree cursor */
  i16 nField;           /* Number of fields in the header */
  u16 nHdrParsed;       /* Number of header fields parsed so far */















  union {
    BtCursor *pCursor;          /* CURTYPE_BTREE.  Btree cursor */
    sqlite3_vtab_cursor *pVCur; /* CURTYPE_VTAB.   Vtab cursor */
    int pseudoTableReg;         /* CURTYPE_PSEUDO. Reg holding content. */
    VdbeSorter *pSorter;        /* CURTYPE_SORTER. Sorter object */
  } uc;
  Btree *pBt;           /* Separate file holding temporary table */
  KeyInfo *pKeyInfo;    /* Info about index keys needed by index cursors */

  int seekResult;       /* Result of previous sqlite3BtreeMoveto() or 0
                        ** if there have been no prior seeks on the cursor. */
  /* NB: seekResult does not distinguish between "no seeks have ever occurred
  ** on this cursor" and "the most recent seek was an exact match". */
  i64 seqCount;         /* Sequence counter */
  i64 movetoTarget;     /* Argument to the deferred sqlite3BtreeMoveto() */


  VdbeCursor *pAltCursor; /* Associated index cursor from which to read */
  int *aAltMap;           /* Mapping from table to index column numbers */
#ifdef SQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_USED_MASK
  u64 maskUsed;         /* Mask of columns used by this cursor */
#endif

  /* Cached information about the header for the data record that the
  ** cursor is currently pointing to.  Only valid if cacheStatus matches
  ** Vdbe.cacheCtr.  Vdbe.cacheCtr will never take on the value of
  ** CACHE_STALE and so setting cacheStatus=CACHE_STALE guarantees that
  ** the cache is out of date.
  **
  ** aRow might point to (ephemeral) data for the current row, or it might
  ** be NULL.
  */
  u32 cacheStatus;      /* Cache is valid if this matches Vdbe.cacheCtr */
  u32 payloadSize;      /* Total number of bytes in the record */
  u32 szRow;            /* Byte available in aRow */
  u32 iHdrOffset;       /* Offset to next unparsed byte of the header */
  const u8 *aRow;       /* Data for the current row, if all on one page */
  u32 *aOffset;         /* Pointer to aType[nField] */
  u32 aType[1];         /* Type values for all entries in the record */
  /* 2*nField extra array elements allocated for aType[], beyond the one
  ** static element declared in the structure.  nField total array slots for
  ** aType[] and nField+1 array slots for aOffset[] */

};


/*
** A value for VdbeCursor.cacheStatus that means the cache is always invalid.
*/
#define CACHE_STALE 0

**          -  On either an index or a table
**      * A sorter
**      * A virtual table
**      * A one-row "pseudotable" stored in a single register
*/
typedef struct VdbeCursor VdbeCursor;
struct VdbeCursor {
  u8 eCurType;            /* One of the CURTYPE_* values above */
  i8 iDb;                 /* Index of cursor database in db->aDb[] (or -1) */
  u8 nullRow;             /* True if pointing to a row with no data */
  u8 deferredMoveto;      /* A call to sqlite3BtreeMoveto() is needed */
  u8 isTable;             /* True for rowid tables.  False for indexes */
#ifdef SQLITE_DEBUG
  u8 seekOp;              /* Most recent seek operation on this cursor */
  u8 wrFlag;              /* The wrFlag argument to sqlite3BtreeCursor() */
#endif
  Bool isEphemeral:1;     /* True for an ephemeral table */
  Bool useRandomRowid:1;  /* Generate new record numbers semi-randomly */
  Bool isOrdered:1;       /* True if the table is not BTREE_UNORDERED */
  Btree *pBtx;            /* Separate file holding temporary table */
  i64 seqCount;           /* Sequence counter */
  int *aAltMap;           /* Mapping from table to index column numbers */

  /* Cached OP_Column parse information is only valid if cacheStatus matches
  ** Vdbe.cacheCtr.  Vdbe.cacheCtr will never take on the value of
  ** CACHE_STALE (0) and so setting cacheStatus=CACHE_STALE guarantees that
  ** the cache is out of date. */
  u32 cacheStatus;        /* Cache is valid if this matches Vdbe.cacheCtr */
  int seekResult;         /* Result of previous sqlite3BtreeMoveto() or 0
                          ** if there have been no prior seeks on the cursor. */
  /* NB: seekResult does not distinguish between "no seeks have ever occurred
  ** on this cursor" and "the most recent seek was an exact match". */

  /* When a new VdbeCursor is allocated, only the fields above are zeroed.
  ** The fields that follow are uninitialized, and must be individually
  ** initialized prior to first use. */
  VdbeCursor *pAltCursor; /* Associated index cursor from which to read */
  union {
    BtCursor *pCursor;          /* CURTYPE_BTREE.  Btree cursor */
    sqlite3_vtab_cursor *pVCur; /* CURTYPE_VTAB.   Vtab cursor */
    int pseudoTableReg;         /* CURTYPE_PSEUDO. Reg holding content. */
    VdbeSorter *pSorter;        /* CURTYPE_SORTER. Sorter object */
  } uc;

  KeyInfo *pKeyInfo;      /* Info about index keys needed by index cursors */
  u32 iHdrOffset;         /* Offset to next unparsed byte of the header */
  Pgno pgnoRoot;          /* Root page of the open btree cursor */
  i16 nField;             /* Number of fields in the header */
  u16 nHdrParsed;         /* Number of header fields parsed so far */


  i64 movetoTarget;       /* Argument to the deferred sqlite3BtreeMoveto() */
  u32 *aOffset;           /* Pointer to aType[nField] */
  const u8 *aRow;         /* Data for the current row, if all on one page */
  u32 payloadSize;        /* Total number of bytes in the record */
  u32 szRow;              /* Byte available in aRow */
#ifdef SQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_USED_MASK
  u64 maskUsed;           /* Mask of columns used by this cursor */
#endif

















  /* 2*nField extra array elements allocated for aType[], beyond the one
  ** static element declared in the structure.  nField total array slots for
  ** aType[] and nField+1 array slots for aOffset[] */
  u32 aType[1];           /* Type values record decode.  MUST BE LAST */
};


/*
** A value for VdbeCursor.cacheStatus that means the cache is always invalid.
*/
#define CACHE_STALE 0

** Close a VDBE cursor and release all the resources that cursor 
** happens to hold.
*/
void sqlite3VdbeFreeCursor(Vdbe *p, VdbeCursor *pCx){
  if( pCx==0 ){
    return;
  }
  assert( pCx->pBt==0 || pCx->eCurType==CURTYPE_BTREE );
  switch( pCx->eCurType ){
    case CURTYPE_SORTER: {
      sqlite3VdbeSorterClose(p->db, pCx);
      break;
    }
    case CURTYPE_BTREE: {
      if( pCx->pBt ){
        sqlite3BtreeClose(pCx->pBt);
        /* The pCx->pCursor will be close automatically, if it exists, by
        ** the call above. */
      }else{
        assert( pCx->uc.pCursor!=0 );
        sqlite3BtreeCloseCursor(pCx->uc.pCursor);
      }
      break;

** Close a VDBE cursor and release all the resources that cursor 
** happens to hold.
*/
void sqlite3VdbeFreeCursor(Vdbe *p, VdbeCursor *pCx){
  if( pCx==0 ){
    return;
  }
  assert( pCx->pBtx==0 || pCx->eCurType==CURTYPE_BTREE );
  switch( pCx->eCurType ){
    case CURTYPE_SORTER: {
      sqlite3VdbeSorterClose(p->db, pCx);
      break;
    }
    case CURTYPE_BTREE: {
      if( pCx->pBtx ){
        sqlite3BtreeClose(pCx->pBtx);
        /* The pCx->pCursor will be close automatically, if it exists, by
        ** the call above. */
      }else{
        assert( pCx->uc.pCursor!=0 );
        sqlite3BtreeCloseCursor(pCx->uc.pCursor);
      }
      break;

  ** to exceed the maximum merge count */
#if SQLITE_MAX_WORKER_THREADS>=SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT
  if( nWorker>=SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT ){
    nWorker = SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT-1;
  }
#endif

  assert( pCsr->pKeyInfo && pCsr->pBt==0 );
  assert( pCsr->eCurType==CURTYPE_SORTER );
  szKeyInfo = sizeof(KeyInfo) + (pCsr->pKeyInfo->nField-1)*sizeof(CollSeq*);
  sz = sizeof(VdbeSorter) + nWorker * sizeof(SortSubtask);

  pSorter = (VdbeSorter*)sqlite3DbMallocZero(db, sz + szKeyInfo);
  pCsr->uc.pSorter = pSorter;
  if( pSorter==0 ){

  ** to exceed the maximum merge count */
#if SQLITE_MAX_WORKER_THREADS>=SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT
  if( nWorker>=SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT ){
    nWorker = SORTER_MAX_MERGE_COUNT-1;
  }
#endif

  assert( pCsr->pKeyInfo && pCsr->pBtx==0 );
  assert( pCsr->eCurType==CURTYPE_SORTER );
  szKeyInfo = sizeof(KeyInfo) + (pCsr->pKeyInfo->nField-1)*sizeof(CollSeq*);
  sz = sizeof(VdbeSorter) + nWorker * sizeof(SortSubtask);

  pSorter = (VdbeSorter*)sqlite3DbMallocZero(db, sz + szKeyInfo);
  pCsr->uc.pSorter = pSorter;
  if( pSorter==0 ){